The oral microbiome of early stage Parkinson’s disease and its relationship with functional measures of motor and non-motor function

• Dragos Mihaila ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dragos Mihaila, Jordan Donegan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Jordan Donegan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dragos Mihaila, Jordan Donegan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Sarah Barns,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Quadrant Biosciences, Inc., Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Daria LaRocca,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Qian Du,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Quadrant Biosciences, Inc., Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Danny Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Michael Vidal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Christopher Neville,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Department of Physical Therapy Education, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Richard Uhlig,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Quadrant Biosciences, Inc., Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Frank A. Middleton

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: middletf@upstate.edu

  Affiliations Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3107-7188

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